Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , so a slide lecture pre-prepared for use by the teacher , the analysis carried out by the pupil using the slides and then the visual material and work cards made available to pupils . |
| 2 | Government negotiators , however , reportedly declined to accept this interpretation , seeing the zone as simply an area where the rebels could disarm and disband . |
| 3 | But the trick of firing the forest and thus a mechanism for massive clearing , is associated with seasonal forest , where man must have first made his mark . |
| 4 | At the same time we explained the role of one EC institution , the European Monetary Cooperation Fund , in administering the snake and then the EMS arrangements . |
| 5 | Although denying the allegations that either the government or the SADF were involved in the instigation or promotion of township violence , he conceded the possibility that individuals in the security forces might have acted unlawfully . |
| 6 | Suggestions included removing the subsidence temperature inversion which trapped the smog , using ground-based fans , helicopters or thermal means ; eliminating the sunlight and thus the smog by producing a gigantic parasol of white smoke laid by aircraft high over the city ; removing the smog through tunnels in the mountains around the Los Angeles basin using huge fans ; and seeding the air with some sort of agent that would ‘ neutralize ’ the smog . |
| 7 | Leave to harden for about 24 hours before , if a very professional finish is required , applying a second and then a third thin coat . |
| 8 | Science popularisers often make the same claim , dismissing the Sun as just a run-of-the-mill star . |
| 9 | It was therefore timely that the RIBA should have been approached by a number of parties interested in publishing the Journal and eventually a deal with The Builder Group was struck by the Institute . |
| 10 | are writing the remit and then the remits are n't going out to the other competitors . |
| 11 | There was all the difference in the world between meeting a retired sporting hero behind the bar and meeting a shareholder or even a director . |
| 12 | When I 'm writing a course or even a session within the course , do you know what I spend most of my time writing the objective after a you know , you know but not after . |
| 13 | They walk solemnly , exhibiting the discipline that even the industrialists concede has been one of Niyogi 's great contributions to their factories . |
| 14 | I traded the £15 machine for a punchcard model , soon adding a ribber and later an intarsia carriage and colour changer . |
| 15 | At last , jamming a fist and then a boot between rock and shrunken ice , I fingered a flake and heaved myself a cheval onto a sunlit stance , metres from the summit . |
| 16 | As Curran has forcefully shown , advertising also plays a part in shaping a newspaper and so the needs of advertising to some extent determine the nature of the newspaper . |
| 17 | I used to enjoy the singing a lot but sometimes the preachers used to go on quite a bit . |
| 18 | This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event . |
| 19 | A pub is a perfectly obvious building to detect on viewing the house and even the most refined drinking place or restaurant is going to subject the surrounding properties to a certain amount of noise as people come and go , as is a large supermarket or a village hall . |
| 20 | A bituminous primer was applied to the existing asphalt covering , which was left in position to form a vapour check layer , before layering the insulation and then the finish was provided by a cap sheet of Vulcanite Tribond 350 elastomeric , white mineral . |
| 21 | Sheffield-born and daughter of a cutlery master , she was herself notably active , running an allotment and still a working cutler : a woman with ‘ plenty of initiative and business capacity . |
| 22 | I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . |
| 23 | The third way of calculating the multiplicand and now the one that finds most favour with the courts is to deduct a percentage from the deceased 's net income figure to represent what he would have spent exclusively on himself . |
| 24 | I am entering the RAF and then the Navy because I believe I can contribute something to this country by so doing . |
| 25 | High acidity ( pH 6.5 ) slows the bacterial decay of organic particles entering the loch and hence the release of their nutrients . |
| 26 | It 's very intuitive , and can be tied to the invoice you 've previously entered ( as you receive it , like all good book-keepers do ! ) very simply by choosing a supplier and then the invoice . |
| 27 | It took over 800 individual dyeings to complete the programme , changing the proportions until exactly the right colour was achieved . |
| 28 | For decades these latter had been infiltrating the administration and even the troopers . |
| 29 | Our bodies already use the muscles required to walk , so it is simply a question of increasing the duration and then the intensity of our walking in order to build up to the fitness level that we require . |
| 30 | It is in the heart of Manchester , but for many years industry and commerce have been moving away from the city centre , increasing the risk that only a lifeless core will be left . |